Size matters. 😊 Tony 🐴 winning 🏆 the prize this morning. ( A Clydesdale size portion of hot mash that was left cooling ). *Maple can reach the latch & has learnt how to open the bottom stable door 🚪* #smallisbeautiful #bigisbeautiful #horses #ponies

In the frame 🖼️ on a picture perfect day. #yorkshire #shepherdess #countryside #view #outdoors

Sunshine & showers & a rainbow 🌈. The wind though was summat else, really fierce.💨 The weather needs to calm itself. #yorkshire #shepherdess #outdoors

Since proclaiming that perhaps Spring had arrived in the hills it has done nothing other than rain and blow a gale. 😑 Fortunately there are no lambs due for a couple of weeks & we’ve brought some of the earlier lambers inside. 🐑 🐑 🐄 🐄 #yorkshire #shepherdess #sheepdog

It’s wet underfoot as Sidney discovered🤣 We’re a predominantly wet farm that has deep peat & blanket bog that can swallow a welly, sheep or machine. Only in recent years have the environmental benefits of these areas has been discovered.😊 *T’is what I told Sidney in his socks*

Crumbs !🍞 It is lovely that the clocks ⏰ have changed and now lighter later. ☀️ It’s great to be outside after school. #yorkshire #shepherdess #outside #chickens

Budding naturalists, botanists, ecologists, ornithologists, hydrologists, geologists. And farmers. 👩‍🌾 🌱🌳☘️🪹🪺🦔🌾🌸🌼🦅🐦🐝🕷️🐞 #yorkshire #countryside #outdoors #nature #farm #learning

Trials and tribulations. 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 #yorkshire #shepherdess

👬👫👫Many hands.👫👫👭 #lambingtime #yorkshire #shepherdess

Our procession. Not so orderly, there’s a few ewe-turns but we get there. 🐶 👭🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 #yorkshire #flock #shepherdess #lambing #turnaway #procession

Work & rest with all creatures great and small. 🐴 🐴

There’s horsepower. 🚜 And there’s horsepower. 🐴 Mine doesn’t have a fuel vaporisation issue. 😊 #heavyhorse #tractor

Whatever the weather 🌦️ #weatheringthestorm

Winter nights 🔥🐴#cold #fire #winter

Buttercup 🐄 the house cow getting a massage from Maple 🐴 whilst being milked, then back to her calf Pansy 🐄 #cow #horse #selfsufficient

Usually a soggy doggy but today Chalky 🐶 is soaking up the sun☀️☀️ #dog #terrier #weather #sun

A bit of a brighter day ☀️🐴🐄 #horse #cow #sun

Windy and wild on the tops today 💨

Winter woollies. 🐑 ❄️ #yorkshire #snow #farm #sheep #winter #shepherdess

Pretty wintery. ❄️ Roll on Spring. 🐶 🐴 #yorkshire #snow #winter #sheepdog #pony